Category Archives: Michigan Report

Incumbent Don Nugent has the entire MIGOP Establishment trying to protect him for being taken out by more conservative, Mitch Lyons or Brian Breslin.

In 2003, Don Nugent helped spearhead a change in Michigan State University policy to add “gender identity” to the University’s non-discrimination clause (harassment) clause. Click here to read the current policy that Nugent helped pass.

Campaign for Michigan Families is committed to electing candidates who support traditional family values including protection of marriage, prenatal children’s Right to Life, religious freedom, and opposition to the political agenda of homosexual activists and the ACLU.

Below you’ll find information we hope will be helpful as you consider the nominations to be decided during the convention this weekend. We encourage you to question all the candidates about where they stand on these issues.

Attorney GeneralTo the best of our knowledge, both Sen. Mike Bishop and Justice Bill Schuette have records that are solidly in support of traditional family values on all the issues mentioned above.

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Secretary of State

(in alphabetical order)

Sen. Cameron Brown
Sen. Brown has a solid record of active support and leadership for traditional family values, including protecting prenatal life, marriage, and religious freedom and opposing homosexual activists’ political agenda — with one significant exception: see the MIRS report below, under Rep. Paul Scott’s entry, in which Brown is quoted as saying that as Secretary of State, he would not oppose allowing men who claim to believe they’re women to have their state-issued driver’s license falsified to identify them as female.

County Clerk Ruth Johnson
As a state House candidate in 2002, Ruth Johnson was endorsed by Triangle Pride PAC, a homosexual extremist group from Detroit which that year endorsed 80 Democrats but only four Republicans in the entire state (including Johnson).

However, after winning election, Rep. Johnson in 2004 voted in favor of a Marriage Protection Amendment to Michigan’s state constitution, which homosexual activists vehemently opposed. Earlier this month, she publicly said she did not seek the 2002 endorsement, had no idea why it occurred, and repudiated it.

She also joined Rep. Paul Scott in expressly opposing the current Secretary of State policy of allowing men to have their driver’s license falsified to identify them as female:

“I do not support allowing people to change their gender on their license as a result of surgery or lifestyle.”

Sen. Michelle McManus
Sen. McManus has a solid record of active support and leadership for traditional family values, including protecting prenatal life, marriage, and religious freedom and opposing homosexual activists’ political agenda.

To our knowledge, McManus has not yet publicly commented on the current Secretary of State policy of allowing men who claim to believe they’re women to have their driver’s license falsified to identify them as female.

County Clerk Anne Norlander
In 2006, Anne Norlander was a member of the Michigan Women’s Commission and was recorded as present during their March 8, 2006 meeting. (See attached minutes of that meeting)

The minutes report merely that the motion to endorse the bill was approved, but without a roll call showing how Norlander and other MWC members voted. Clerk Norlander claimed in an e-mail to Campaign for Michigan Families that she abstained on the vote, but there is no documentation to confirm that claim. At best, if her claim is true, Norlander failed to speak out or vote against allowing Michigan children to be adopted by homosexual couples.

In the same meeting, MWC approved a motion — this time seconded by Norlander — to endorse Senate Bills 431 and 432, which would have required all insurance providers in Michigan to provide coverage for any drug or device approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as a contraceptive.

Since the legislation requires coverage of “any” FDA-approved drug or device, it seems clear that the bills Norlander endorsed would have, if enacted, required providers to insure substances that induce abortions. For example, just two weeks ago…

REUTERS: “FDA OKs new ‘morning-after’ pill” — “Conservatives, Republicans and other critics…say the drug is more akin to an abortion pill than birth control. ‘The FDA opted against including the critical fact that (the drug) can cause an abortion on a baby already implanted in its mother’s womb in the drug labeling information,’ Jeanne Monahan, director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, said.” (Aug. 13, 2010) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67C4T320100814

Also, see the MIRS report below, under Rep. Paul Scott’s entry, in which Norlander is quoted as saying that as Secretary of State, she would not oppose the policy of allowing men who claim to believe they’re women to have their state-issued driver’s license falsified to identify them as female.

Rep. Paul Scott
State Rep. Paul Scott has a solid record of active support and leadership for traditional family values, including protecting prenatal life, marriage, and religious freedom and opposing homosexual activists’ political agenda.

Six months ago, he was the first candidate to firmly and courageously address a fundamental honesty-in-government issue on which the next Secretary of State will certainly come under political pressure from the ACLU and others, and will almost certainly be implemented if a Democrat is elected to the position:

Should the Secretary of State falsify an official government I.D. by allowing a man who claims to believe he’s a woman to have his driver’s license changed to legally and officially identify him as female, thus giving him legal access to women’s restrooms, locker rooms, and showers?

Paul Scott’s response: “I will make it a priority to ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed to change the sex on their driver’s license in any circumstance.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS: “Michigan Secretary of State candidates make gender an issue?”

MIRS (Michigan Information and Research Service): “Scott not hiding on transgender issue” — “Two of the three other Republican candidates seeking the party’s Secretary of State nomination — Calhoun County Clerk AnneNorlander and Sen. CameronBrown disagreed with Scott on the transgender license question. Brown and Norlander both argue that if a judge orders a person who has gone through reassignment surgery to have their driver license gender changed, the Secretary of State is in no position to challenge that ruling.” (Feb. 2, 2010)

In fact, contrary to the assertions of Sen. Brown and Clerk Norlander, the Secretary of State’s policy regarding identifying characteristics listed on driver’s licenses — including sex — is determined by the Secretary of State, not by a court order.

Three weeks later, after the change was reported by a homosexual activist newspaper in Detroit, Secretary of State Terri Land ordered the policy change reversed to the current policy, under which biological males who have had gender-removal surgery can have their driver’s license falsified to identify them as female. (Between the Lines, May 12, 2005:http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=14010)

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Michigan State University Board of Trustees

Don Nugent
In 2003, incumbent Trustee Don Nugent voted with the rest of the MSU board of trustees (including Scott Romney, who seconded the motion) to add the radical term “gender identity” to the “harassment” clause of Michigan State’s non-discrimination policy.

In 2007, Nugent voted to add the term “gender identity” to the “discrimination” clause of the same policy.

If you’re not sure what “gender identity” means, it’s the same issue discussed above regarding the Secretary of State’s issuance of driver’s licenses.

In MSU’s case, the university board of trustees — including Nugent — voted to prohibit “discrimination” or “harassment” on the basis of “gender identity,” i.e., a male professor who wears a dress and high heels to class cannot be “discriminated” against or “harassed” for demanding that he be allowed to use the same campus restrooms, showers, and locker rooms as female students and faculty.

Left-wing openly homosexual Democrat Barney Frank explained this outrageous violation of women’s privacy rights best when he initially refused to include the term “gender identity” in his federal “gay rights” legislation because he considered it too radical to win Congressional support — as reported by Bay Windows, a homosexual activist newspaper in Boston:

“The current ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) would protect transgender individuals if they are discriminated against because they are gay or lesbian or perceived as being gay or lesbian, (Frank) said. But there are workplace situations — communal showers, for example — when the demands of the transgender community fly in the face of conventional norms and therefore would not pass in any Congress. ‘I’ve talked with transgender activists and what they want — and what we will be forced to defend — is for people with penises who identify as women to be able to shower with other women,’ said Frank, citing the activists’ handbook which states that a person’s declared gender is the one by which he or she should be recognized. ‘There are no votes for that. And if that is the price for this bill, it is wrong.'”

The Republican members on the MSU Board of Trustees joined in unanimously approving a policy change so radical that even left-wing homosexual activist Democrat Barney Frank initially refused to support it in Congress.

The reality of such policies: last year, a female professor at Western Michigan University — which has adopted the same “gender identity” policy — was shocked to find a man standing naked in the shower next to her in the women’s locker room of an on-campus health club. Whose rights were violated: the woman’s, or the man’s?

Is this the kind of policy Republican state convention delegates expect their candidates to support once elected to office?

Mitch LyonsBrian Breslin

At this late date, we have not directly contacted the other two candidates for MSU Board of Trustees, but we’ve been told by a source we trust who did talk to Mitch Lyons that Lyons indicated he would have voted and spoken out against a so-called “gender identity” policy that violates the privacy rights of female students and staff on the MSU campus.

Below is an e-mail that Michigan Republican Party staffer, Norm Shinkle, has been passing around to other MIGOP Staffers. This is unacceptable for the Michigan Republican Party to get involved in a contested race.

Below is a sample email that Don Nugent needs you to send to your GOP Delegate friends.

We need to get the truth out. Attached is Melaine Foster’s MSU note.

I hope you can forward this to folks voting this weekend.

Norm

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I wanted to let you know about the MSU Trustee race and some of the untrue things that are being said about Don Nugent. Rumors are spreading that Don is 83 years old and suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Neither is true. Don was born in 1941 and as he has said at some GOP functions, he suffered nerve damage from the use of pesticides in his orchards back in the 60’s. He has a tremor in his hand that was caused by pesticides that have since been banned…

…Before you vote on Saturday make sure you know the truth and facts about the candidates.

Gary Glenn and the Campaign for Michigan Families have recently taken issue with Anne Norlander and her stance on homosexual adoption and the morning-after pill. Apparently Norlander is a supporter of both. Read on for the details.

According to the Campaign for Michigan Families:

In 2006, Secretary of State candidate Anne Norlander was a member of the Michigan Women’s Commission and was recorded as present during their March 8, 2006 meeting.

During that meeting (Click Here for the Meeting Minutes), the MWC endorsed House Bill 5399 to allow homosexual couples to adopt children in Michigan. The attached minutes report merely that the motion to endorse was approved, but without a roll call as to how Norlander and other members voted. (Norlander claimed in an e-mail to us that she abstained on that vote, but there is no documentation of whether or how she voted, and to our knowledge, she has not publicly stated her views on homosexual adoption or any other element of homosexual activists’ political agenda. Perhaps other members of the MWC you may know could testify as to whether she voted on the issue, and how.)

MWC also approved a motion — this time seconded by Norlander — to endorse Senate Bills 431 and 432, which would have required all insurance providers in Michigan to provide coverage for any drug or device approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as a contraceptive.

Our concern with the homosexual adoption legislation is obvious.

The second piece of legislation raises the question of whether it would apply to the morning-after pill, which is potentially an abortifacient instead of or in addition to a contraceptive. Since the legislation requires coverage of “any” FDA-approved drug or device, it seems clear that the bills Norlander endorsed would require providers to subsidize abortifacients.

For example, two weeks ago…

FDA OKs new “morning-after” pill — “Conservatives, Republicans and other critics…say the drug is more akin to an abortion pill than birth control. ‘The FDA opted against including the critical fact that ella can cause an abortion on a baby already implanted in its mother’s womb in the drug labeling information,’ Jeanne Monahan, director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, said.” (Reuters, Aug. 13, 2010)

Yesterday, a group of Republican Delegates in Oakland County called for Ruth to stay in as County Clerk because she would be replaced by a liberal Democrat if she had to step down from County Clerk to be Secretary of State. Ruth Johnson countered saying that a Republican would be elected to replace her. The Michigan Report received a press release today that seems to prove that the individuals that would have to elect a new County Clerk are liberal Democrats, and would elect a liberal Democrat to succeed her.

The Press Release, received from Mike Hoffman, goes on to say that

“Chief Circuit Judge Nanci Grant would preside over the election for a new County Clerk. The Oakland County Circuit Court is not a conservative bench as Johnson claims. In fact, the liberal majority who control the existing Michigan Supreme Court picked her to be chief judge on her bench. Those liberal justices do not pick Constitutional conservatives for leadership positions.”

Between Judge Grant and her liberal husband, Mark Frankel (2008 Oakland County Probate Court candidate), they have received the following endorsements in the recent past:

A pair of Oakland County Republican leaders today expressed concern that if Oakland County Clerk Ruth JOHNSON were to be elected the Secretary of State, she would be succeeded by a Democrat, who would play a key role the 2011 county commission seat redistricting.

“Ruth Johnson has been a tremendous County Clerk for Oakland County and we need her to stay in that role for redistricting and the Presidential Election,” Nelson said. “Oakland County Republicans and Michigan Republicans cannot afford for Sheila Smith and ACORN to control the Oakland County Clerk’s office.”

Today, MIRS ran with an article about these rules causing a stir at convention. Here are some clips from that article:

Under Weiser’s changes, Republicans will only hold a maximum of two votes on the Secretary of State nomination as opposed to a potential four, and it will elect its education and Supreme Court nominees in such a way that a candidate who loses in the first ballot can not run for the second spot on the ballot.

The later rule change has agitated some Republicans, who are concerned that Weiser is trying to create a favorable environment for his preferred nominee for the Michigan State University (MSU) Board of Trustees, incumbent Don NUGENT.

“There’s no question that’s what he’s doing,”

[Greg] McNeilly was asked about the rumor that the fight against the rule change is being staged by MRP powerbrokers Chuck and John YOB of Strategic National as a way to better the chances that their client, Lyons, would have a better shot at the convention.

Asked to respond to McNeilly’s comment and their role in trying to change the rules, John Yob said, “I am not a rules committee member and do not have a position on whether Greg McNeilly and his client, the establishment at the Michigan Republican Party, should be able to change the rules to protect an incumbent in the face of a Tea Party challenge brought about by the University’s excessive spending, including the campus in Dubai.”